ABASHING Antonyms

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

• spur on

• give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain

• a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows

• support and strengthen

• prop up with a pillow or bolster

• add padding to

• a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain

• a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment

• the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction

• a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state

• satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal

• give moral or emotional strength to

• lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate

• give encouragement to

• heighten or intensify

• supply the inspiration for

• serve as the inciting cause of

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• fill with revolutionary ideas

• draw in (air)

• assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

• heighten or intensify

• give lifelike qualities to

• make lively

• give new life or energy to

• a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured

• float on the surface of water

• keep afloat

• mark with a buoy

• a cry or shout of approval

• the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

• give encouragement to

• show approval or good wishes by shouting

• cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful

• become cheerful

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• the appearance conveyed by a person's face

• formal and explicit approval

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• consent to, give permission; permit

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• infuse with spirit

• a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm

• the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

• a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness

• an automobile race run over public roads

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• gather

• call to arms; of military personnel

• gather or bring together

• return to a former condition

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

• stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals

• support against an opponent